Acts 7:1

Christian Standard Bible ®

"Is this true?" the high priest asked.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?"

Legacy Standard Bible
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Bible in Basic English
Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

Darby Translation
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

New King James Version
Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

World English Bible
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"

King James Version (1611)
Then said the high Priest, Are these things so?

Literal Translation
And the high priest said, Tell me then if you thus hold these things?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so?

Mace New Testament (1729)
Then said the high priest, are these things so?

THE MESSAGE
Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?"

Amplified Bible
Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?"

American Standard Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Revised Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Is this so?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayde ye chefe prest: is it even so?

Update Bible Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

Young's Literal Translation
And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'

New Century Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Are these things true?"

New English Translation
Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?"

Berean Standard Bible
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these charges true?"

Contemporary English Version
The high priest asked Stephen, "Are they telling the truth about you?"

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen hagadol asked, "Are these accusations true?"

English Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?

George Lamsa Translation
THEN the high priest asked Stephen, Are these things so?

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen Gadol said, "Are these things so?"

International Standard Version
Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"

Etheridge Translation
And the chief of the priests demanded if these (things) were so ?

Murdock Translation
And the high priest asked him: Are these things so?

New Living Translation
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these accusations true?"

New Life Bible
The head religious leader asked Stephen, "Are these things true?"

English Revised Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

New Revised Standard
Then the high priest asked him, "Are these things so?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the High-priest said - Are these things, so?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

Lexham English Bible
And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then said ye chiefe priest: Are these thynges so?

Easy-to-Read Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?"

New American Standard Bible
Now the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Good News Translation
The High Priest asked Stephen, "Is this true?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the prynce of prestis seide to Steuene, Whethir these thingis han hem so?

Contextual Overview

¹ "Is this true?" the high priest asked. ² "Brothers and fathers," he said, "listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, ³ and said to him: Get out of your country and away from your relatives, and come to the land that I will show you. ⁴ "Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in. ⁵ He didn't give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless. ⁶ God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them 400 years. ⁷ I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship Me in this place. ⁸ Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the 12 patriarchs. ⁹ "The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him ¹⁰ and rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Are: Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 26:62, Mark 14:58-60, John 18:19-21, John 18:33-35

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:20 - General Acts 6:5 - Stephen 1 Timothy 3:13 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

Genesis 7:7
So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:8
From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said the high priest,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "to him"; that is, to Stephen; for to him he addressed himself: or he "asked him", as the Syriac version renders it; he put the following question to him:

are these things so? is it true what they say, that thou hast spoken blasphemous words against the temple, and the law, and hast said that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the one, and change the other? what hast thou to say for thyself, and in thine own defence? this high priest was either Annas, or rather Caiaphas;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said the high priest - See the notes on Matthew 2:4. In this case the high priest seems to have presided in the council.

Are these things so? - To wit, the charge alleged against him of blasphemy against Moses and the temple, Acts 6:13-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII.

Stephen, being permitted to answer for himself relative to the

charge of blasphemy brought against him by his accusers, gives

a circumstantial relation of the call of Abraham, when he dwelt

in Mesopotamia, in Charran, c., 1-8.

The history of Jacob and Joseph, 9-17.

The persecution of their fathers in Egypt, 18, 19.

The history of Moses and his acts till the exodus from Egypt,

20-37.

The rebellion and idolatry of the Israelites in the wilderness,

38-43.

The erection of the tabernacle of witness, which continued till

the time of David, 44-46.

Of the temple built by Solomon for that God who cannot be

confined to temples built by hands, 47-50.

Being probably interrupted in the prosecution of his discourse,

he urges home the charge of rebellion against God, persecution

of his prophets, the murder of Christ, and neglect of their own

law against them, 51-53.

They are filled with indignation, and proceed to violence, 54.

He sees the glory of God, and Christ at the right hand of the

Father and declares the glorious vision, 55, 56.

They rush upon him, drag him out of the city, and stone him,

57, 58.

He involves the Lord Jesus, prays for his murderers, and

expires, 59, 60.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII.

Verse Acts 7:1. Are these things so? — Hast thou predicted the destruction of the temple? And hast thou said that Jesus of Nazareth shall change our customs, abolish our religious rites and temple service? Hast thou spoken these blasphemous things against Moses, and against God? Here was some colour of justice; for Stephen was permitted to defend himself. And, in order to do this he thought it best to enter into a detail of their history from the commencement of their nation; and thus show how kindly God had dealt with them, and how ungraciously they and their fathers had requited Him. And all this naturally led him to the conclusion, that God could no longer bear with a people the cup of whose iniquity had been long overflowing; and therefore they might expect to find wrath, without mixture of mercy.

But how could St. Luke get all this circumstantial account? 1. He might have been present, and heard the whole; or, more probably, he had the account from St. Paul, whose companion he was, and who was certainly present when St. Stephen was judged and stoned, for he was consenting to his death, and kept the clothes of them who stoned him. See Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20.